if you're an energy company, it reins back regulations against climate change emissions. it does stuff companies like. it increases their profits. but something they like even less than taxes is publicity. >> right. >> of a bad nature. and the documents we got, which opened a window into the work that a.l.e.c. does showed how much corporations heighted that. and at least 41 listed by a.l.e.c. themselves under this title, prodigal son project, trying to get them back now to become members again, have left since 2012. left a few months after trayvon martin died. >> so the idea is they're trying to create sort of another entity that can then be donated to instead of a.l.e.c. proper? >> yes. and that's part of it, trying to get around the name of a.l.e.c., which has become slightly sort of dirty or smelly, perhaps, in public for the time being. but also they're trying to get away from any threatened future of the irs coming after them for lobbying. they are a charity. they're tax-he exempt. they're creating legislation was claiming a charity doing no political work at all. an